The metabolism and thermal exchanges of sheep with fleeces.
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We will not set people up to be fleeced.
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The ventilator shafts were stuffed with sheep fleeces, and a few bleating sheep were put in the front of the lorry.
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They are planning more and more taxes, so the road user will be fleeced, but less and less will be spent on public transport.
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During that time, our sheep would have had 40 fleeces and some 40 lambs would have come from that sheep stock.
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He is fleecing people practically down to the skin.
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However, the taxpayer, who initially paid for the bridge, is being fleeced and is having to pay interest charges on the money provided.
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The public are being fleeced every week, being almost bled white and exploited by these people who just want to make vast sums of money.
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There are hundreds of cases that could, and should have been dealt with involving crooked directors, deliberately fleecing the public.
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The phrases ripped off, fleeced, done, overcharged or taken for a ride all mean the same thing: people have not received value for money.
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Why should the public be fleeced in that way?
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I am not prepared to see the public fleeced while we are waiting for standards to be evolved.
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Surely these men ought not to have to suffer all the disadvantages of long-distance travel and then be fleeced by the railway companies?
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He has been well and truly fleeced, as were so many others.
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Does he believe that people on such low incomes should be fleeced by the greedy banks?
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